James H. “Sarge” Mills remembers when traveling from Georgia to South Carolina meant going aboard a ferry.

Nowadays it’s as easy as driving across the Furys Ferry Road bridge near Mills’ Evans residence.

In about 1925, when he was 3, Mills said he and his father rode out in the country from their Harrisburg home to travel across the Savannah River on Fury’s Ferry, which carried travelers from the early 19th century until it was replaced by a bridge.

All that remains is the ferry’s name, carried by the road that it once connected.